Photograph taken from the roof of the Bluebird Theatre located in Denver, Colorado. Photograph is looking east down East Colfax Avenue. The 1914 Bluebird Theater opened as the first Denver theater designed specifically for the exhibition of movies. Harry Huffman, premier movie theater owner and promoter, acquired the Bluebird to begin the city's first and largest locally owned chain of movie theaters. Designed by prominent Denver architect Harry W.J. Edbrooke, the theater represents the first of what quickly became a discernable type of entertainment venue, the neighborhood movie theater.

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